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Lessons you "learn" from fiction tend to be unreliable. Fiction is not only not true, it is often systematically misleading.
by gweinberg 13y ago
Lessons you "learn" from fiction tend to be unreliable. Fiction is not only not true, it is often systematically misleading.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Lessons you "learn" from fiction tend to be unreliable. That's true from lessons learned from fact, too, as they are more often than not drawn from non-representative, skewed samples of facts, which are each individually true in isolation, but nevertheless support faulty lessons. Good lessons -- drawn originally from systematic, careful study of fact -- OTOH, are often illustrated with carefully constructed fiction from which more people learn them from than do directly from the facts.